Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night and the members of the House had drained the last drops of beer & ale in their Restaurant. But they did not get away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana...
...President Green went before the 188 Amalgamated delegates in the Elks' Auditorium and outdid himself. Said he: "I come as a miner speaking to steel workers. ... I know what it is to go starving, what it is to go through 18 months of strike and to taste the bitter dregs of defeat. "I don't want you to risk a conflict when the odds are against us. It would set us back and we cannot afford to be set back. It is better at this time to observe the weight of sound judgment rather than the dictates...
...bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey...
...bitter cliques of the industry, one other name emerges, that of Chicago's Mars, Inc. The late Frank Clarence Mars cornered 20% of the candy bar business with his three leaders, Milky Way, Snicker and Honey Almond. If a worker in his well-scrubbed plant disobeyed his rule against jewelry and lost a ring or wristwatch on the job, he threw out the entire mix on which she had been working. The competition among the candy bar specialists is as quick-burning as carbohydrates. Williamson Candy's Oh Henry! (a core of fudge covered with soft caramel, rolled...
...framework of his purpose. There are two things which should be guarded against. Above all he must not go forth into the much-described battle of life filled with the type of idealism which so many speakers are stressing this week. Life will be a bitter disappointment if he does. The college graduates who started the War, the college graduates who brought about the depression, the college graduates who have spent their lives making fortunes unjustly at the expense of others; all these heard the same sentiments when they left college and supposedly, were suitably impressed. Some members...